How does this happen (man dies from sleeping in fire)

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I will post up an image of the newspaper article in a few, but basically a 50 year old SW Missouri man rolled into his campfire and continued sleeping. Sadly he died from the incident.

Crazy stuff.

Be careful out there guys. Stay safe!
 
he must have been a really sound sleeper or had too much to drink and passed out. vampire gerbil (vg) was burned in a brush fire. he fell asleep behind his property when he was out with his dog and woke up on fire.
 
richard j said:
he must have been a really sound sleeper or had too much to drink and passed out. vampire gerbil (vg) was burned in a brush fire. he fell asleep behind his property when he was out with his dog and woke up on fire.
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The thing about fiction is it has to SOUND true. Actual life, does not have too...

There may have been booze involved, but the report that the guy seemed to have stayed in the fire for a while just defies my logic...never been under the influence of anything that strong (I would think I would be up and running in short order). What do I know though?
 
Drugs? Alcohol or something better I guess. A mate of mine burned himself badly on the beach after rolling into a fire. It was early morning after a bunch of E [I think you call it X] the night before. He was too deep into the parachute [benzodiazepine] to notice.
 
I can imagine that intoxicants could have been involved.

My only other conjecture was perhaps the concrete drainage ditch was deep enough, and steep sided enough that perhaps he rolled into it and on top of the fire and became trapped inside the bedroll? That seems like a stretch though.

Outdoor life is exciting enough for me without any additional chemistry;)
 
If at any point anyone feels this thread ought to be moved, feel free...it just seemed fitting here to me.
 
Is it common that people at very low temperatures get so close to the fire to get some small burns in their skin or blankets/sleeping bags?
I am asking because I have never experience a bellow freezing temperature without at least a tent.
Thanks + Regards
 
Was it determine if the man had had a heart attack or stroke that would have somehow rendered him unable to get out of the fire?
 
Crazy stuff. Maybe it is the same concept of dropping a frog in glass of cold water and slowly bringing it to boil, and the frog doesn't know the difference.
Or maybe not.
The article said he was intoxicated, but I can't imagine any intoxicants that would result in unknowingly burning yourself to death.
 
Maybe it was a synthetic sleeping bag and it melted onto him. Synthetics can go up in flames relatively quickly and I bet that much material is hard to get out of when it is on fire.
 
Things like this happen on occasion. I treated a guy who was kicked out of the house by his wife for being drunk. He lit a bunch of candles on his porch and went to sleep. He woke up on fire with third degree burns over seventy percent of his body. He was in hospital for months.

I have heard that people who smoke in bed are at similar risk, especially if alcohol or drug use is involved.
 
My first thought was that his heart locked up on him. But he survived for a while. Likely deeply passed out on liquid liver quiver.
 
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